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. 2020 Mar 24;17(6):2156. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17062156

Table 2.

Methods to educate pregnant women and questions to ask on an educational role in comparison with a biomedical position.

Methods Biomedical Position Educative Position
To customize speech taking representations of pregnant women into account “EDs are chemical products where exposure is associated with diseases” “what are EDs for you?”
To present risk and solution in the same time “As EDs are present in plastics, you should avoid plastics” “you told me there are EDs in plastics, what could you do to avoid it?”
To use the word risk but in a positive vision “You must avoid this product” “what could you do about ED exposure to improve health?”
To highlight solutions that the pregnant women can use to decrease this exposure “It is a very good idea to have chosen a glass bottle!”
To empower, to motivate that it is possible to change “You told me you wanted the best for your baby, what about doing as well outside the house as you do inside the house?” [cooking]
To have concrete speech “In your house….”
To respect steps “You should throw away all your plastic boxes” “You can do that this week and think about another way to do better the following week”